Why this should have happened is, to me, the most profound mystery facing modern biology " Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene.

Details from various of Morris's paintings can be seen on the cover art of early editions of Richard Dawkins's books The Selfish Gene and The Blind Watchmaker.

* The ESS was a major element used to analyze evolution in Richard Dawkins ' bestselling 1976 book The Selfish Gene.

The word meme is a shortening ( modeled on gene ) of mimeme ( from Ancient Greek μίμημα mīmēma, " something imitated ", from μιμεῖσθαι mimeisthai, " to imitate ", from μῖμος mimos " mime ") and it was coined by the British evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins in The Selfish Gene ( 1976 ) as a concept for discussion of evolutionary principles in explaining the spread of ideas and cultural phenomena.

The word meme originated with Richard Dawkins ' 1976 book The Selfish Gene.

Burman, by contrast, has shown that the misunderstanding that memes are " real " is a result of a popularization based on a confused interpretation of Dawkins ' The Selfish Gene.

Memetics is a theory of mental content based on an analogy with Darwinian evolution, originating from the popularization of Richard Dawkins ' 1976 book The Selfish Gene.

In his book The Selfish Gene ( 1976 ), the evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins used the term meme to describe a unit of human cultural transmission analogous to the gene, arguing that replication also happens in culture, albeit in a different sense.

Dawkins apparently did not intend to present a comprehensive theory of memetics in The Selfish Gene, but rather coined the term meme in a speculative spirit.

" Memeticist " was coined as analogous to " geneticist " originally in The Selfish Gene.

'" Dawkins ' The Selfish Gene has been a factor in drawing in people of disparate intellectual backgrounds.

Lynch claimed to have conceived his theory totally independently of any contact with academics in the cultural evolutionary sphere, and apparently was not even aware of Dawkins ' The Selfish Gene until his book was very close to publication.

* The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins

* The term memetics is first proposed by Richard Dawkins in his book The Selfish Gene.

The Selfish Gene is a book on evolution by Richard Dawkins, published in 1976.

In summary, the rhetoric of The Selfish Gene exactly reverses the real situation: through metaphor genes are endowed with properties only sentient beings can posses, such as selfishness, while sentient beings are stripped of these properties and called machines ( robots ).

The Selfish Gene was first published in 1976 in eleven chapters with a preface by the author and a foreword by Robert Trivers.

In March 2006, a special event entitled The Selfish Gene: Thirty Years On was held at the London School of Economics.

* The Selfish Gene: Thirty Years On and mp3 from Edge Foundation, Inc.

* Richard Dawkins discusses The Selfish Gene on the BBC World Book Club

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In 1976, in his book The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins suggested applying biological evolutionary theories to the spread of ideas.

While the essay argues that Christianity and evolutionary biology are compatible, a position described as evolutionary creationism or theistic evolution, the phrase is also used by those who consider that " in biology " includes anthropology, and those who consider a creator to be unnecessary, such as Richard Dawkins who published The Selfish Gene just three years later.

" The three criticized sociobiology, evolutionary psychology, and adaptationism, most prominently in the book Not in Our Genes ( 1984 ), laying out their opposition to Sociobiology ( E. O. Wilson, 1975 ), The Selfish Gene ( Richard Dawkins, 1976 ), and other works promoting an evolutionary explanation for human social behaviour.

In 1992, at his 40th birthday party, Adams introduced her to his friend Richard Dawkins ( biologist and author of such books as The Selfish Gene, The Blind Watchmaker and, later, The God Delusion ).

This idea was sketched briefly by Richard Dawkins in his 1976 book The Selfish Gene and was explicitly exposed in two 1980 articles in Nature magazine.

* Dawkins, Richard ( 1976 ), The Selfish Gene.

In The Selfish Gene, author Richard Dawkins asserts the gene is the only true unit of selection.

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This is a reference to Richard Dawkins ' The Selfish Gene.

One sociobiological model is The Selfish Gene, proposed by Richard Dawkins: That an individual of a species will mate with individuals from the same species displaying " good genes ".

Nevertheless, there is a core of scientists that recognize the gene-centered view, championed by Richard Dawkins Selfish Gene1976.

* Richard Dawkins ( 1990 ), The Selfish Gene, second edition – includes two chapters about the evolution of cooperation, ISBN 0-19-286092-5

* Dawkins, Richard C. 1976 The Selfish Gene, Oxford University Press ( Discussion of carers and bearers in relation to inclusive and personal fitnesses, and the bugbear of parental investment as part of inclusive fitness occurs herein )

* The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins ( 1990 ), second edition — includes two chapters about the evolution of cooperation, ISBN 0-19-286092-5

However, the paradigm shift of the gene-centric view of evolution ( popularised by Richard Dawkins in The Selfish Gene ) shortly afterwards overturned this idea: mainstream views in behavioural ecology and sociobiology saw natural selection restored to Darwinian principles in terms of survival value to the individual ( and its kin ).

* Selfish Gene is about a boy named Gene who only acts in ways that are beneficial to him under the framework of sociobiology.

He developed the broad and encompassing inclusive fitness theory that can explain a gene's spread in any number of ways, e. g., through purely Selfish behavior ( actor benefits, the recipient does not ), through reciprocity or mutualism ( actor and recipient benefit, even if benefits are selfish in gain ), through delayed reciprocity ( a uniquely dominant human behavior ), as well as altruistic social behavior among kin ( benefits to actor and recipient are realized to be similar as they share the same gene by common descent that is being replicated ).

Richard Dawkins wrote in The Selfish Gene in 1976 that " there are some examples of cultural evolution in birds and monkeys, but ... it is our own species that really shows what cultural evolution can do ".